Custom Websites & Frum Docs

Dovid Yudkowitz, former Av Bayit in Lander and currently "living the dream" in Israel, has started a small company called YudkoProgramming.com which builds customized websites and software. If you're interested in his services just click on the link and contact him.

One of the first projects he helped with will be of use to many alumni: FrumDocs.org. While still in its startup phase, its mission is to facilitate social networking between Orthodox Jewish doctors and clinicians by means of forums, retreats, and the like. Obviously, a site like this can be of great use to any frum person in the medical fields, so check it out and join.

LCM Alumni Newsletter

In This Issue The Mesora of Chessed - By Rabbi Yehuda Parnes Shlit"a New Alumni Website Professor Robert J. Aumann to Speak at LCM Kew Garden Hills Shabbos Zmanim Parshas Chayei Sarah Candle Lighting 4:14 PM Shkiah 4:32 PM Tzeis (3 Stars) 5:16 PM Tzeis (Rabeinu Tam) 6:58 PM LCM Shabbos Davening Mincha (Friday) - 4:17 PM Shabbos Shachris - 8:30 AM Shabbos Mincha - 3:56 PM Maariv - 5:22 PM WOMEN'S TEHILLIM BREAKFAST THIS SUNDAY This Sunday, November 23rd, the LCM Alumni Society will team up with N'shei Lander to host its second Tehillim Breakfast of the year. Back by popular demand, this event gives a chance for women in the Lander community to socialize, enjoy a hot, catered breakfast, and join together to complete sefer tehillim. This is the fourth women's event of the year. Following successful women's shiurim and breakfasts, we are looking to expand our women's programming. If anybody would like to suggest potential new programs to service the growing N'shei Lander community, please email aryeh.young@touro.edu. The breakfast will take place at 10:00 AM in room 210. SAVE THE DATE FEB. 20-21 LCM ALUMNI COUNCIL PREPARES TO HOST FIRST ANNUAL ALUMNI SHABBATON !!! The LCM Alumni Council has decided to organize an Alumni Shabbaton catered to all LCM alumni. The Shabbaton will take place in Kew Garden Hills at LCM, and housing will be arranged for all alumni, including families. Rebbeim and faculty members will also participate in the shabbaton, which will feature exciting programming, seudos, fun for the kids, and an exciting melave malka. Ariel Kapitnikoff, David Manheim, Sochi Hornung, and Moshe Orenstein will serve as this year's Shabbaton committee. LCM Alumni Council LCM Alumni Affairs Aryeh Young Faculty Member Dean Dr. Moshe Sokol Chair Moshe Ornstein Vice Chair - Programming Suchi Hornung Vice Chair - Communications Ezzie Goldish Secretary David Manheim Assistant Secretary Yosef Lerhman Council Members Michoel Bodenheimer Jon Burg Yehuda Hammer Evan Honigsfeld Ariel Kopitnikoff Ari Lasker Ari Lustig Elie Mendelson Elie Norowitz Dovid Rubin Ari Shore Gabi Shull Dovid Zigun Quick Link... We would like to encourage all of our alumni to check out the new Lander Shiurim Website, where you can access audio shiurim from your former Rebbeim and Roshei Yeshiva. Enjoy! Lander Shiurim Lander College is currently cleaning out the storage garage in apartment 2-2 where many alumni have left their old belongings, as well as, the personal sefarim that have been left behind in the Beis Medrash. Please come and claim your old belongings, or call the Office of Alumni Affairs to have them be set aside for you. Good Shabbos! Aryeh Young Director of Alumni Affairs aryeh.young@touro.edu 718-820-4883 (work) 516-512-4494 (cell) NEW ALUMNI WEBSITE CREATES JOB NETWORKING AND UP-TO-DATE LCM NEWS Do you know somebody who is looking for a job? Did you hear who just got engaged? Do you know about the next LCM alumni event or women's shiur? Find out all the LCM alumni news and find excellent employment opportunities through the new LCM alumni network. Many job opportunities are already posted, so come check it out now at LCMalumni.blogspot.com. The website is updated several times a week, so check regularly for the latest LCM news and job postings. The Touro alumni research databases and LCM Shiurim can also be accessed from the website. We appreciate all of those who have contributed to make the website a reality, and we ask all alumni to email any job availabilities or noteworthy mazel tovs to Ezzie Goldish, Vice-Chair of Communications, at serandez@gmail.com to assist in making this website an ongoing reality. Thank you, Ezzie! "Economics and the Talmud" A Community Lecture by Robert J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, 2005 Professor Robert J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, 2005, will be speaking at LCM, Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at 8:00 PM. The lecture will be open to the entire community and all alumni are warmly invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. The event is hosted by Touro College and the Orthodox Union. LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP FOR LCM COMMUNITY DISCOUNT CARD The LCM Community Discount Cards have finally been ordered! If you have not yet signed up to become a member of the LCM Alumni Society, please sign-up immediately, and a personalized card will be ordered on your behalf. The cards are expected to arrive in two weeks, and will be valid until 12/31/2009. The card will enable LCM alumni, students, and faculty to receive significant discounts at many vendors in the Kew Garden Hills community. Discounts will be offered for groceries, dry cleaning, restaurants, shatnez checking, dentistry, optometry, pizza, flowers, candy, wine, and more. A full list of participating vendors will be released in the next LCM Alumni Newsletter. Sign up and save hundreds of dollars!!! Membership in the LCM Alumni Society also enables alumni unlimited access to the brand new, state-of-the-art LCM fitness center, discounts at LCM alumni events, half-price yamim noraim seating, and access to the LCM library. The yearly fee is $72 for alumni who are currently employed and $36 for those alumni who are still pursuing their education. Checks can be made out to Lander College, with "alumni society" written in the memo line. Checks can be mailed to: Attn: Aryeh Young Lander College for Men 7531 150th St Flushing, NY 11367 The Mesora of Chessed By Rabbi Yehuda Parnes Shlit"a Last week I had the privilege of attending my grandson's wedding in Eretz Yisroel. He has been studying in Yeshivas Kol Torah for a number of years and has become very popular amongst talmidim and rebbeim alike. Therefore, it was not surprising that most of the yeshiva, including the roshei yeshiva were in attendance at the chasanah. Among the many members of the yeshiva in attendance, was an older bochur in a wheel chair, who I later found out, lives in the yeshiva. The bochur is in his 30's and unfortunately has Lou Gehrig's disease, which is of course, degenerative. I noticed that many of the talmidim were pushing the wheel chair around, enabling the bochur to take part in the dancing. It was clear that this was very meaningful to both him, as well as the bochurim assisting him. Why am I sharing you with this? Well, when the shidduch between my grandson and his kallah was taking place, the kallah's father decided to check out my grandson. He went down to Yeshivas Kol Torah and asked, "Tell me about a good bochur here," to which several bochurim pointed out my grandson. The girl's father continued probing, asking, "What more can you tell me?" The bochurim replied: "That bochur is among those who care for a young man in a wheel chair, but he does so in a very special way. When he needs to go to the bathroom, he needs to be taken and helped in a very significant way. Only three or four people are willing to do this." When the father of the kallah heard this, he readily agreed to the shidduch. In the recent parshios we learn about the chessed of Avraham Avinu. Avraham is portrayed as the amud hachessed, the pillar of good deeds. The Rambam explains in Hilchos Tzedakah that this is the midah that defines Klal Yisroel. Although we see chessed among the goyim as well, our chessed is unique and special. Although the Christain countries do engage in chessed, this it is not surprising at all since they, too, share our mesorah of chessedderived through Avraham Avinu via the Torah. Let us take a closer analysis of this. Where does this chessed come from? There are two basic aspects of Avraham Avinu. He's the amud hachessed and he is also the rosh ha'ma'aminim. In fact, the Rambam named his son Avraham, specifically because Avraham Avinu was the rosh ha'ma'aminim. These two midos of chessed and emunah go together both philosophically and logically. This duality is easily understood as follows: without emunah in Hashem's creation, there is no purpose in chessed. Animals only have capacity for chessed when survival of the race is dependent on it. Why would, or should, a person do chessed philosophically if he is an atheist? Although people will sometimes adopt the approach of "I'll do for you," "You'll do for me," and "We won't kill each other," such a lifestyle is done only for pragmatic and functional reasons, and will not last. On the other hand, if we have emunah, we are all brothers. There is an intrinsic brotherhood shared by all of Klal Yisroel - I identify with the Ribono Shel Olam and you identify with the Ribono Shel Olam. Therefore, because we identify with each other, you are really doing a chessed to yourself. Thus, chessed and emunah are interdependent with one another. Without emunah, there is no philosophic basis for chessed. Jews are very much into chessed. There are so many Jewish hospitals. Mount Sinai, Maimonides, this hospital, that hospital; many are Jews who left all significant observance back in Europe. Yet, there is a mesorah about the value of chessed. How long will it last? Unfortunately, their children and grandchildren don't get the same mesorah or desire for chessed that their parents had. That is why I raised this issue. It had tremendous impact upon me at the chassanah, when I watched how the b'nei hayehsiva took care of this young man with special needs, as they tried to make life meaningful for him and give him some moments of happiness and joy. A goy, b'etzem, often does not understand this and if he does, it is only because he too, has this mesoras hatorah from Avraham Avinu. May we be a light unto the nations and continue to spread this mesorah for many years to come. Good Shabbos, Rabbi Parnes Transcribed by Ari Blavin Alumni Hashkafa Shiur Continues Come enjoy a shiur on the parsha and its timeless lessons and reunite with the Mashgiach and former chaveirim. The shiur is held every Wednesday at 9:15 PM (culminating with Maariv at 10:00) and will continue every Wednesday evening unless otherwise notified by email. The location will be on the 4th floor in the President's conference room of Lander College for Men, 75-31 150th St., Kew Gardens Hills, NY. If possible, please RSVP if you plan on attending.

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Wedding of Shmuel Belsh

Mazel Tov to Shmuel Belsh (Highland Park, NJ) on his upcoming marraige (tonight!) to Tova London (Highland Park, NJ). May they be zoche to a bayis ne'eman b'yisroel!

Ben Greenberg

Mazal Tov to Ben Greenberg (LCM, 2005) on his upcoming marriage to Sharon Weiss on December 21st, 2008!

NIH Programs/Jobs/Internships

Looking to further your science career or education? Here are some useful links from Avi Rosenberg (LCM, 2006).

Here is the link for the 1-2 year NIH Post-Bacc Application Website:

http://www.training.nih.gov/student/pre-irta/previewpostbac.asp

Both me and Nasanel (Nathaniel) Bergman are/have done this.

The NIH undergraduate summer research program application can be found here:

http://www.training.nih.gov/student/sip/

There is also a NIH summer program specifically in Baltimore. Their link is:

http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/students/summeropps.htm

Early Stage Investor opening

Courtesy of Chanan Averbuch

Recession? Depression? Rock n Roll!
This is a great time to be an early stage investor and GrandBanks Capital is
hiring!
GrandBanks Capital is looking for a venture capital associate to join our
team. If you fit the criteria below and are interested
in an opportunity to learn about early stage venture capital from industry
veterans, please contact us immediately.

GrandBanks Capital
www.GrandBanksCapital.com

Position: Venture Capital Associate
Position Location: Newton Center (Boston)
Type of Firm: Venture Capital
Start Date: Flexible

Description: GrandBanks Capital (GBC), a Boston based venture fund is
seeking a venture capital associate. GBC focuses predominantly on early
stage (Series A & B) technology investments in companies operating
principally in the areas of Internet infrastructure, software and software
services, security and storage applications, media technologies and
services, financial technologies and services, and wireless technologies and
services.

GBC is seeking an associate with at least 2-5 years of investment banking,
investment research or private equity work experience in technology. Only
Pre-MBA candidates will be considered. Transactional experience in
investment banking is preferred! Candidates should have top-tier
experiences, both in their academic and operational careers, should be
highly motivated, technology savvy and must be self-starters.

Specific skills critical to success include:

*Desire to uncover facts and understand market opportunities
*Ability to work alone, and to direct peers and professionals
*Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
*Knowledge of technology and market trends.
*Strong financial analysis and valuation skills
*Net-native: deep understanding of Internet origins, trends and solutions.

*Strong online presence a plus

Specific tasks to be performed include:

*Market research (demand)
*Competitive analysis (supply, substitutes, competitive approaches)
*Financial review and analysis including valuation
*Technology review
*Reference checking on management and customers
*Manage deal flow, deal flow database and prepare deal management reports
*Meet and evaluate prospective investments
*Work directly with portfolio companies and management teams
*Attend board meetings with General Partners

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and a resume via mail,
email or fax to:

Associate Position
GrandBanks Capital
10 Langley Road, Suite 403
Newton Center, MA 02459-1972
Email: resumes@grandbankscapital.com
FAX: 617-928-9305
NO PHONE CALLS FROM APPLICANTS

Brunch Reception

Lander College for Men
Invites
Parents of Students and Alumni
to a
Brunch Reception

Sunday, December 7, 2008
10 Kislev 5769
10:30 AM - Noon

Lander College for Men
75-31 150th Street
Kew Gardens Hills, New York

Dr. Moshe Sokol, Dean
Stephen R. Brown, Chair of Board of Overseers

R.S.V.P. by December 1, 2008 to Susan Moskowitz
At 718.820.4885 or smoskowitz@touro.edu

This program provides an opportunity for parents to learn about
recent developments at the College, and to make suggestions
for its continuing growth as a model institution
of Jewish higher education in America.

New LCM Alumni Website to Announce Job Postings, Mazel Tovs, Shiurim

LCM ALUMNI WEBSITE

The LCM Alumni Council is excited to announce the release of a new website geared to enhancing the growth of the LCM community. The new website LCMalumni.blogspot.com will include many important features to help service our alumni:

Job Postings - the website will be constantly updated with new job openings that will help our alumni grow professionally

Mazel Tovs & Personal News - babies, engagements, weddings, bris invitations, graduations, condolences

Lander College News - find out the latest happenings from your alma mater

Divrei Torah - read divrei torah from your former Rebbeim and access the LCM shiurim link

Of course, the website cannot grow without your help. Please email Ezzie Goldish, Vice Chair of Communications, at serandez@gmail.com or Moshe Ornstein, Chairman of the council, at MCOrnstein@gmail.com, with any job availabilities you may know about or any recent alumni personal news (mazel tovs, condolences, etc.) that should be added to the website. (Links to their emails are also available on the website, and they will be happy to update the website on your behalf).

Although the website is still being polished up, we encourage our alumni to all take a quick look, and please respond with feedback and additional newsworthy information to add to the site. Lastly, the website could not be made possible without the hard work of Ezzie Goldish. Thank you! Good Shabbos,

Aryeh Young
Director of Alumni Affairs
Lander College for Men
516-512-4494 (cell)
718-820-4883 (office)

This blog is still being set up. Thanks for your patience!

If you have any ideas, suggestions, or input as to the layout, ease of use, or content that is or should be here, please e-mail us! Our e-mails are to the right. Thanks!

Hedge Fund Trading Assistant/Junior Analyst

Growing Hedge Fund Seeks Trading Assistant/Junior Analyst (Fort Lee, NJ) Growing Market-Neutral fund seeks Trading Assistant/Junior Analyst to assist in daily functions. Analyst will assist successful portfolio manager with over 20+ years of experience to create comprehensive investment objectives. Position offers talented individual the opportunity to work directly with decision makers and provide guidance into investment opportunities.

Candidate must have a B.A. or B.S., preferably in finance, statistics or mathematics. Ideal Candidate should have 1-4 years of experience in the financial services sector. Applicants must have advanced Excel knowledge and experience in analyzing public filings. Candidate should possess the skills to `think outside the box' have a `thick skinned personality' and perform well in a challenging environment.

Interested candidates should send resume and cover letter to NJOPERATIONS@gmail.com.

Compensation: Salary based on experience and bonus based on performance.

Timing: Immediate Start.

Women's Shiur Tuesday Night

Rabbi Yitzchak Genack, shlit"a, of Beis Medrash L'Talmud will be giving a shiur for women only, this Tuesday night, November 11th, at 7:30 PM. The Shiur will take place in room 210.

The Shiur is absolutely free and open to all women. Come and brings your friends!

If you could not attend the last shiur and would enjoy the opportunity to listen, the shiur is only a click away... Rabbi Shmulewitz on Preparing for Yamim Noraim (Women's Shiur)

Alumni Hashkafa Shiur

Come enjoy a shiur on the parsha and its timeless lessons and reunite with the Mashgiach R' Bamberger and former chaveirim.

The shiur is held every Wednesday at 9:15 PM (culminating with Maariv at 10:00) and will continue every Wednesday evening unless otherwise notified by email. The location will be on the 4th floor in the President's conference room of Lander College for Men, 75-31 150th St., Kew Gardens Hills, NY.

If possible, please RSVP if you plan on attending.

Lech Lecha: R' Tannenbaum

Rav Ephraim Tannenbaum, shlit"a, is the newest Rosh Yeshiva at Beis Medrash L'Talmud. Rav Tannenbaum learned for fifteen years at Yeshiva Sha'ar HaTorah, where he learned under the guidance of Rav Kalman Epstein shlit"a. Rav Tannenbaum also spent time in Eretz Yisroel, where he had the privilege to learn by Rav Shmuel Aurbach shlit"a. During the last five years, Rav Tannenbaum served as a popular maggid shiur at Yeshiva Madreigas Ha'adam. He currently lives in Kew Gardens, and regularly spends shabbosos in the yeshiva.

I came across a mysterious comment in the writings of the Sfas Emes on this week's parsha. The "Lech Lecha" command, writes the Sfas Emes, is a command that goes out to every person, every day. Avraham's greatness was that he heard it. Really now. I, too, must leave my land, my birthplace, and my father's house. Are we obligated to do that? And every day, too? Is he joking?

No. He's challenging us to think abstractly. 'Your land, your birthplace, your father's house" - this describes your comfort zone. It's where you're at... where you've always been... the way people are accustomed to viewing you... the way you're accustomed to viewing yourself. Lech Lecha. Step out of that zone. Test the unknown. Make yourself vulnerable. Yes, every person, every day. It's the only way to achieve anything.

Imagine you have a job at an entry level position. You flip burgers. Then one day, you're called into the office and asked to become the manager. While flipping burgers, you knew exactly what was expected of you and you knew that you excelled. You knew how to flip, you knew how - and when - to talk, and you knew how to dress. You know how you were thought of by your boss, your colleagues, and the customers. As manager, you'll have none of that security. You don't know how good you'll be at handling the responsibilities. You don't know how the other employees will respond to your leadership, and you certainly don't know how anyone will find your taste in ties. As manager, you'll become vulnerable. Accepting the position means lech lecha mei'artzecha, u'mi'moladet'echa, u'mi'beis avicha. Accepting the position, and not knowing where you'll wind up is el ha'aretz asher arekah.

The same is true in our avodah ruchanis. I have a self-identity. I may not be the world's biggest tzaddik, but I'm not particularly bad, either. I may not love being me, but I'm comfortable. I know who I am, I know what's excepted of me, and I know I am good at it. I can meet those expectations. I could keep this me and get nowhere; but I have a picture of a better me... a me that often davens with kavana... a me whose learning seder is productive and consistent... a me whom my children admire for patience and calmness and my wife appreciates for my kindness and my thoughtfulness... and I fantasize from time to time about actualizing that picture.

Just one thing stops me. Saying even even one bracha with more kavana than is appropriate for my identity, requires that I leave my comfort zone. I don't know how it will feel. I don't know how people will react, and I don't know whether I'll succeed or fail. Ditto for the first time I surprise my friends and put my learning seder over a ballgame. Or the first time I tell my kids, "No, I'm not angry, all kids make mistakes sometimes." Or the first time I say into the phone, "Really, I don't want anything, I'm just calling to see how your day is going." I don't know how the words will sound coming out. I don't know how they'll be received. I'll be going out on a limb... vulnerable... into unfamiliar territory... out of my land, my birthplace, my father's house. But it's the only way up.

The Lech Lecha command goes out to every person, every day. May we all be like Avraham Avinu, and have the courage to hear it, and to take the leap.

Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Tannenbaum

Alumni Council Meets, Elects Officers

The LCM Alumni Council held its first meeting Monday Night, November 7:30 PM to discuss alumni programming and services to better serve the alumni and foster the development of an alumni community. The council has elected chairmen to represent the council for the current school year.

• Chairman: Moshe Ornstein
• Vice Chair - Programming: Suchi Hornung
• Vice Chair - Communications: Ezzie Goldish
• Secretary: David Manheim
• Assistant Secretary: Yosef Lerhman

Congratulations!

Please contact any council representative to provide your input and suggestions for future services and programming. The council will continue to meet on a monthly basis for the remainder of the school year.

Baby Boy to Elhanan Abrams

Mazel tov to Elhanan and Eliana Abrams on the birth of a baby boy. Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Ari Shore on becoming an uncle and aunt. The bris will IY"H take place in Yeshiva on Tuesday, November 11th, following shacharis. Shacharis will be at 7:45 AM.

Head of Financial Reporting Position

Great opportunity to build and run a Financial (SEC and GAAP)
Reporting group for a $2Billion organization that is not yet public.

This company is not in financial services

Requirements: CPA who is or has been a manager of a financial
reporting team

I will be happy to share the full job description

Jeff Kronisch
kronisch@insearchworldwide.com